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From: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: x86_32 PAE ballooning is busted
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:03:52 -0500
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On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:50 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > I have an opteron with 6gig ram running X86-32 with Xen 
> > compiled with PAE enabled. When I do the following to try to 
> > ballon down (as xm ballooning is busted) I get the following:
> 
> Yep, I noticed this too.
> 
> My guess would be that its overflow in the size calculation. You might
> want to sprinkle a few u64 's in the balloon /proc code.
I'll give that a try and see if I that might be the fix for the problem.

> 
> Ian
> 
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